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Mandaeans

Mandaeans, Nasoreans, or Sabians, a small religious sect dating from the early centuries of Christianity, which professes a kind of Gnosticism mingled with Judaistic and Zoroastrian elements. Some of them still survive at Sug esh-Shia, about Basra, at the head of the Persian Gulf.